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CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- A group of Liberian women refugees who have held naked protests by the roadside are to be deported from Ghana, a minister has told the BBC. Hundreds of the women were arrested on Monday and taken away from a refugee camp in 10 buses, witnesses say... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jan 17, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- Kenya's police have fired into the air to disperse opposition supporters in cities across the country on the second day of protests against disputed polls. A BBC correspondent says two people have been shot in Nairobi's Kibera slum and there are clashe.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Sep 10, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- About 70% of Iraqis believe security has deteriorated in the area covered by the US military "surge" of the past six months, an opinion poll suggests. The survey by the BBC, ABC News and NHK of more than 2,000 people across Iraq also suggests that near.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jul 3, 2007 @ 10:10pm neoform

CNN -- Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in Gaza since March 12, was handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials on Wednesday, a Palestinian source close to negotiations for his release said. The source and another Palestinian i.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jun 25, 2007 @ 9:59am neoform

CNN -- Clad in what appeared to be an explosive vest, kidnapped BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston warned in a new video that his captors would turn their hideout into a "death zone" if any rescue attempt is made. Although it was unclear when the clip -- po.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Apr 15, 2007 @ 9:20pm neoform

CNN -- The BBC said Sunday it is "deeply concerned" about an unknown militant group's claim that it has killed a BBC reporter kidnapped last month in Gaza, but is treating the statement as a "rumor with no independent verification." In a statement faxed to ne.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 27, 2007 @ 8:06pm neoform

Independent -- British government officials have backed the methods used by scientists who concluded that more than 600,000 Iraqis have been killed since the invasion, the BBC reported yesterday. The Government publicly rejected the findings, published in The Lancet.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 11:10am neoform

BBC News -- Lawyers in Sudan's Darfur region are investigating reports of slavery during the conflict, the BBC has learned. "There are many cases of abductions," a Sudanese lawyer told the BBC. They are too afraid of possible reprisals from either militias or s.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 9, 2008 @ 8:26am neoform

BBC News -- Zimbabwe's "war veterans" militia plan to intimidate voters by posing as police officers during the presidential run-off, a policeman has told the BBC. He said they would be based inside polling stations during the vote, whose date has not yet been fix.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Mar 5, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- At least seven South Sudanese have been freed from their Arab abductors after the resumption of an operation to rescue them, the BBC has learnt. The seven have been taken to a transit camp in the South Darfur capital, Nyala, the head of the operation s.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Jul 8, 2007 @ 3:52am neoform

BBC News -- The BBC's motoring programme Top Gear has been accused of causing damage to a pristine wilderness in Botswana. Conservationists have accused the show, hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, of leaving scars across the Makgadikgadi salt pans by driving vehicles acr.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Jul 4, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

BBC News -- BBC correspondent Alan Johnston has been released by kidnappers in the Gaza Strip after 114 days in captivity. Mr Johnston, 45, was handed over to armed men in Gaza City. He said his ordeal was like "being buried alive" but it was "fantastic" to be fre.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jul 3, 2007 @ 10:10pm neoform

CNN -- BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, kidnapped March 12 in Gaza by a group calling itself the Army of Islam, has been released, according to Hamas officials and members of the Popular Resistance Committee in the region. Johnston, wearing blue jeans and a butt.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Tue Jul 3, 2007 @ 4:51pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- The arrest of two militants from the radical group holding BBC correspondent Alan Johnston hostage has put the journalist's life in great danger, according to sources in Gaza and within the group itself. Johnston, who was kidnapped on 12 March, today endu.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jul 3, 2007 @ 11:32am neoform

BBC News -- About 200,000 people have signed an online petition calling for the release of BBC reporter Alan Johnston. Mr Johnston was kidnapped in Gaza on his way home on 12 March. On Monday, Hamas security forces in Gaza detained members of the Palestinian mi.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jun 25, 2007 @ 10:10am neoform

BBC News -- The kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston have released a new video of him in which he is wearing what he says is an explosives vest. In the tape, Mr Johnston says his captors have said they will detonate the vest if force is used to try to fre.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jun 21, 2007 @ 12:38am neoform

BBC News -- The Taleban in Afghanistan are changing their tactics to mount more attacks on the capital, Kabul, a spokesman for the militant group has told the BBC. The spokesman, Zabiyullah Mujahed, said Taleban were recovering after Nato had infiltrated the group.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 10:12pm neoform

BBC News -- Thousands of BBC staff around the world will observe a vigil on Wednesday marking 100 days since the kidnapping of Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston. Colleagues at Glastonbury festival, on drama sets and in newsrooms in Britain and beyond will pause at.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed May 9, 2007 @ 2:13pm neoform

BBC News -- The BBC has again voiced concern for the safety of its Gaza reporter, Alan Johnston, after the release of a tape purportedly made by his kidnappers. The tape has no fresh pictures of Mr Johnston but shows his BBC ID card and contains a demand for the r.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Apr 25, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- A rally has been held by journalists at the main crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip over the kidnapping of BBC reporter Alan Johnston. Members of the Foreign Press Association in Israel gathered on both sides of the Erez checkpoint. On.. Read More